Deals for Trade Votes Gone Bad
Deals for Trade Votes Gone Bad June 2005 © 2005 by Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch. All rights reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photography, recording, or by information exchange and retrieval systems, without written permission from the authors. Public Citizen is a nonprofit membership organization in Washington, D.C., dedicated to advancing consumer rights through lobbying, litigation, research, publications and information services. Since its founding by Ralph Nader in 1971, Public Citizen has fought for consumer rights in the marketplace, for safe and secure health care, for fair trade, for clean and safe energy sources, and for corporate and government accountability. Visit our web page at http://www.citizen.org. Acknowledgments: This report was written by Todd Tucker, Brandon Wu and Alyssa Prorok. The authors would like to thank Paul Adler, Eliza Brinkmeyer, Tony Corbo, Elizabeth Drake, Susan Ellsworth, Lina Gomez, David Kamin, Patricia Lovera, Travis McArthur, Nanine Meiklejohn, Kathy Ozer, Tyson Slocum, Tom “Smitty” Smith, Margarete Strand, Jamie Strawbridge, Michele Varnhagen, Jeff Vogt, Lori Wallach, and David Waskow for their help with this document, as well as the authors of previous Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch deals reports, including Gabriella Boyer, Mike Dolan, Tamar Malley, Chris McGinn, Robert Naiman, Darshana Patel, and Patrick Woodall. Special thanks go to James Meehan for help with the title logo. We also thank
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